Biographical
Information
Judith Longest Bethea was born in New Orleans on October 4, 1945 and
grew up in Starkville, Mississippi, where her family moved in 1947. She
attended Millsaps College and received a degree in English Education in
1969 from Louisiana State University at New Orleans and an MA in English
from the University of New Orleans, in 1981. She was married to Dr.
William Bethea in 1983. She taught English in New Orleans Public schools
until her retirement in 1990. She died on March 30, 2009.
In the late 1980's, after she and her husband bought an old house on
Bordeaux Street, she became interested in property research and compiled a
detailed history of her own home. This project developed into a second
career as a house historian. Until her death in 2009, Ms. Bethea wrote
several hundred histories for individual property owners, real estate
agents and for organizations such as the Preservation Resource Center.
She also contributed to a number of television programs and scholarly
publications and conducted classes in property research methods.
Scope and Content
The papers, for the most part, consist of Ms. Bethea's files on
individual properties she researched. In some cases, she was commissioned
to research a series of addresses, rather than a single property. She
also conducted research into property ownership of several of the early
New Orleans faubourgs (Bloomingdale, Bouligny, Burtheville,
Greenville, Hurstville), as well as research into the ancestry of Norbert
Rilleux and Louis A. Martinet (the Martinet research originated with a
commission to locate Martinet's gravesite). Also included are notes,
outlines, and handouts used in classes or talks on conducting property
research, miscellaneous genealogical notes, and secondary material
gathered for use in her research.
The files on individual or multiple properties typically include Ms.
Bethea's rough research notes and photocopied material from newspapers,
notarial documents, probate records, tax assessment records, Sanborn Fire
Insurance maps, etc. A chain of title is often included, along with
drafts of Ms. Bethea's report. A copy of the final report is usually (but
not always) included in the file.
Also included is a copy of Winston De Ville's The 1795 Chimney-Tax
of New Orleans: A Guide to the Census of Proprietors and Residents of the
Vieux Carre (1994), annotated by Ms. Bethea to indicate the addresses
of many of the individuals included in the guide.
Arrangement & Processing Notes
The files are arranged alphabetically, as labeled by Ms. Bethea.
Newspaper clippings from local newspapers were not retained. Original
manilla file folders were photocopied, if Ms. Bethea included notes (other
than a record of times spent on the project) on the folder itself.
Included among the papers were a number of folders, labeled by square
number, containing nothing more than copies from The Historic New Orleans
Collection's Vieux Carre Survey. Since the survey is now online
(http://www.hnoc.org/vcs), these
copies were not retained unless the folder also contained reports or notes
written by Ms. Bethea.
In addition to the paper files, Ms. Bethea also supplied a cd
containing Microsoft Word files of the finished report for many of her
projects. A few of the files on the CD are preliminary reports. These
files were printed and inserted into the appropriate file folder. If no
file folder for an address or project existed, one was created by the
processor.
Detailed Description of the Papers
Box 1
Annunciation St., 4003; Constantinople St., 602 Annunciation St.,
5001 Anthony St., N., 239-241 Arabella St., 1322-1324 Atlantic
St., 719 Audubon Blvd. Audubon Blvd., 4 Audubon Blvd., 7
Audubon Pl., 12 Avart Plantation Baronne St., 346 Baronne St.,
521-547 Bartholomew St., 1001-1003 Bienville St., 510-522 Blanc
Pl., 2 Bloomingdale Bordeaux St., 1629 Bordeaux St., 1633 (Bethea
Residence)
Box 2
Bouligny Bourbon St., 831; St. Philip St., 516 Bourbon St.,
914 Bourbon St., 1440 (Dolliole-Mason House) Broadway Ave., 515
Broadway Ave., 579 Brule, Charlot -- Documents relating to the estate
of Burgundy St., 629 Burgundy St., 1009 Burtheville
Burtheville, Square 23
Box 3
Calhoun St., 1335 Camp St., 216-220 Camp St., 217-221 Camp
St., 2330 Camp St., 2333 Camp St., 2703 Camp St., 5249
(Peters-Abramson House) Canal Blvd., 4506 Canal St., 3620 Canal
St., 4016 Canal St., 400 block (Square 133) Carondelet St., 3530
Carondelet St., 3539-3541 Carondelet St., 4319 (Square 436)
Carondelet St., 4724 Carondelet St., 4803; Bordeaux St., 1706
Carrollton Ave., 2000 Carrollton, City of (Square 277) Chartres St.,
2900-2920 (National Rice Mill; Squares 20-21) Chartres St., 3317
(Original site of Touro Almshouse) Chartres St., 3933 (Lombard
Plantation)
Box 4
Chestnut St., 2333 Chestnut St., 2419 Chestnut St., 2532
Chestnut St., 3125 City Park Ave., 1172 Coliseum St., 2325
Coliseum St., 2425 Coliseum St., 2604 Coliseum St., 2627 Coliseum
St., 2708 Coliseum St., 3222 Coliseum St., 6014 Commercial
Alley Constance St., 1365 Constantinople St., 1636 Crawford,
Josephine and Biloxi Research Dauphine St., 4804 Decatur St.,
1232 DeSoto St., 3027 Dorgenois St., N., 917 Douglass St.,
5432 Dublin St., 2000 Dumaine St., 2654
Box 5
Eighth St., 1525 Eighth St., 1531 Eleonore St., 343 Elmira
St., 501; Eliza St., 833 Elysian Fields, 501 Esplanade Ave., 544
(Tiblier-Cazanave-Cummings House) Esplanade Ave., 2612 First St.,
1134 First St., 1236 First St., 1239 First St., 1304 First
St., 1312 First St., 1322 First St., 1323 (Howard House) First
St., 1331 First St., 1407 First St., 1420 First St., 1428
First St., 1432 Fitzner, William (Architect) Foucher St., 724
Foucher St., 1721 Fourth St., 1213 Fourth St., 1226 Frenchmen
St., 601; Chartres St., 2103 Frenchmen St., 825 Friburg
Box 6
General Pershing St., 2036 General Taylor St., 625 Genois St.,
129 Gentilly Blvd; Gentilly Terrace Governor Nicholls St., 1227
Governor Nicholls St., 2523 Gravier St., 523 Green St., 8119
Greenville Hampson St., 7535 (Pezold-Bethea House) Hampson St.,
7705 Henry Clay Ave., 1500 (Judge John Howard Ferguson) Hillary St.,
904
Box 7
House History -- How to Conduct Research Howard Ave., 310
Hurstville In the Beginning: Faubourg St. Mary Jackson Ave., 1236
(Sweet-Udall House) Jackson Ave., 1302 Jackson Ave., 1410 Jackson
Ave., 1422 Jackson Ave., 1429 Jackson Ave., 1435 (Thorn-Morgan
House) Jackson Ave., 1516 (St. Mary's Assumption Chapel) Jefferson
Ave., 930-932 Jefferson Ave., 1216 Lafayette Brewery Laurel St.,
4117-4119 Lesseps St., 601 Lesseps St., 608, 615, 619 Lopez St.,
N., 1219 Louisa St., 821 Lowerline St., 308 Loyola St., 6320
Box 8
Magazine St., 1378-1380 Magazine St., 1441 Magazine St., 2233
Magazine St., 6101 Maple St., 7818 Marais St., 1225-1227 Marais
St., 1231 Marengo St., 926-928 Marguerite Plantation, La (Lafource
Parish) Melpomene St., 926-928 Melpomene St., 1431 Melpomene St.,
1433 Milan St., 1502-1506 Milan St., 1634-1636 Millaudon St.,
376 Miro St., N., 1300 Miscellaneous Genealogical Material Moss
St., 1035 Moss St., 1437 Napoleon Ave., 1303 Napoleon Ave.,
1305 Nashville Ave., 435 Nashville Ave., 510 Nashville Ave.,
905 New Orleans Museum of Art French Quarter Art Tour
Box 9
Octavia St., 1431 Oliver St., 219 Operation Comeback
(Preservation Resource Center) Orleans Ave., 1029 (Durac-Roger
House) Orleans Club Orleans St., 1031 Palmer Ave., 1711 Panola
St., 8142 Patterson St., 631 Pauger St., 1452 Perrier St.,
4416 Peters St., S., 900 Philip St., 923 Philip St., 1238
Philip St., 1430 Pierce St., S., 118-120 (Dominick O'Malley House)
Pierce St., S., 415 (Siren-Hutchinson House) Pirate's Alley, 624
(Faulkner House) Pitt St., 5323 (Gilbert Academy)
Box 10
Preservation Resource Center -- Class Notes Preservation Resource
Center -- Holiday Home Tours Prytania St., 1704 Prytania St.,
1780 Prytania St., 2322 Prytania St., 2343 Prytania St., 2507
Prytania St., 2911 Prytania St., 3020 Prytania St., 3102 Prytania
St., 3203 Rampart St., N., 528 Rampart St., N., 1000-1006/St.
Philip, 1033-1035 Saint Andrew St., 1525
Box 11
Saint Charles Ave., 316-318, 350 Saint Charles Ave., 320-326
Saint Charles Ave., 330 Saint Charles Ave., 800-808-810 (Julia Row)
Saint Charles Ave., 2220 (House of Broel) Saint Charles Ave., 2228
Saint Charles Ave., 2265 Saint Charles Ave., 2503 Saint Charles
Ave., 2524 (Marigny-Smith-Rice House) Saint Charles Ave., 2525 (Koch
House) Saint Charles Ave., 4301 Saint Charles Ave., 4605 Saint
Charles Ave., 4717 (William Perry Brown House) Saint Charles Ave.,
4803 Saint Charles Ave., 5005 (Orleans Club) Saint Charles Ave.,
6126 Saint Charles Ave., 7004 (Parkview Guest House) Saint Charles
Ave., 7133 Saint Charles Ave., 7725-7727
Box 12
Saint Louis St., 827 Saint Louis St., 931 Saint Mary St.,
1203 Saint Mary St., 1204 Saint Mary St., 1213 Saint Mary St.,
1305 Saint Peter St., 627 Saint Philip St., 972 Saint Thomas
Project (2 folders) Second St., 1136; Camp St., 2508 Second St.,
1206 Second St., 1233 Second St., 1320 Second St., 1410
(Elkin-Derks House) Second St., 1427
Box 13
Seventh St., 1324 Seventh St., 1406 Seventh St., 1506 Seventh
St., 1524 Sixth St., 1537 Solomon Pl., 922 Soniat St., 1008
Square 154, 7th Ward Square 277 State St., 1331 State St.,
1912 State St., 1923 State St., 2027
Box 14
Tchoupitoulas St., 1127 (Lengsfield Packaging Co.) Tchoupitoulas
St., 1556 Tchoupitoulas St., 3157 Tchoupitoulas St., 5951 Third
St., 1222 Third St., 1303 Third St., 1314 Third St., 1315
Third St., 1331 Third St., 1404 Third St., 1410 Third St.,
1415 Third St., 1530 Toulouse St., 1012 Toulouse St., 508-513;
514-518 (Louis Lanoix property) Toulouse St., 828 Toulouse St.,
926 Transcriptions and Translations
Box 15
Valence St., 1636 Valence St., 1702 Versailles Blvd. Walnut
St., 333 Washington Ave., 1237 Washington Ave., 1308 Webster St.,
1333 The 1795 Chimney-Tax of New Orleans - Winston De Ville
(annotated)
Box 16
DeBuys-Mercier (notes) Martinet, Louis Andre (Folders 1 & 2)
Rillieux, Norbert, et al. Rilleux Ancestry - Computer disks (3 1/2
inch) Rilleux Ancestry - Francois Cheval Rilleux Ancestry -
Interview with Estelle Cheval (July 5, 1995) - cassette tape Rilleux
Ancestry - Leander Cheval & Aimee Vivant Rilleux Ancestry - Louis
Cheval, et al. Rilleux Ancestry - Louison Cheval Rilleux Ancestry -
Lioteau Family Rilleux Ancestry - Macarty Family Rilleux Ancestry -
Soulie Family Rilleux Ancestry - Charles Vivant Rilleux Ancestry -
Various Family Lines (Folder 1)
Box 17
Rilleux Ancestry - Various Family Lines (Folders 2 & 3) Sims,
Frederick Family (sites of interest to the family, to be used during a
family reunion) VCS Square 22 (Includes report on 536 Dumaine St.)
VCS Square 33-34 (Includes report "The Quarterhouse Property:
1792-1828") VCS Square 43-44, 45-56 (Includes reports "The MInton Home,
919 Orleans Street," "The Lynott Home, 927 St. Philip Street," "915 St.
Philip Street," "The Boggs Home, 623 Bourbon Street," "831 Bourbon
Street," and "The Faulkner House, 624 Pirate's Alley") VCS Square 48
(Includes report on 912 Royal St.) VCS Square 72 (Includes report "The
Boggs Home, 623 Bourbon Street") VCS Square 75-76 (Includes report on
831 Bourbon St.) VCS Square 79-80 VCS Square 84 (Includes report on
915 St. Philip St.) VCS Square 85-86 VCS Square 87-88 (Includes
report "The Minton House, 919 Orleans Street" VCS Square 89-90 VCS
Square 91-92 VCS Square 93 VCS Square 97-98 VCS Square 99
VCS Square 100 VCS Square 102 (Includes report on 1031 Orleans Street
- formerly 107) VCS Square 103-104 VCS Square 105-106 VCS Square
107-108
Box 18
Square 61 St. Charles, Short, Cherokee
Square 62 St. Charles, Pearl Cherokee, Hillary
Square 63 St. Charles, Pears, Hillary, Adams
Square 64 St. Charles, Pearl, Adams, Burdette
Square 65 Fern, Burdette, Pearl, St. Charles
Square 66 Fern, Short, St. Charles, Pearl
Square 67 St. Charles, Pearl, Short, Ruso
Square 71 St. Charles, Hampson, Short, S. Carrollton
Square 72 St. Charles, Hammpson, Short, Fern
Square 74 St. Charles, Hampson, Adams, Burdette
Square 75 St. Charles, Hampson, Adams, Hillary
Square 76 St. Charles, Hampson, Cherokee, Hillary
Square 77 St. Charles, Hampson, Cherokee, Lowerline
Square 79 Hampson, Maple, Hillary, Cherokee
Square 93 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Maple, Burthe
Square 94 S. Carrollton, Short, Maple, Burthe
Square 107 S. Carrollton, Short, Burthe, Freret
Square 108 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Burthe, Freret
Square 119 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Freret, Zimple
Square 120 S. Carrollton, Short, Freret, Zimple
Square 134 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Zimple, Oak
Square 151 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Oak, Plum
Square 163 S. Carrollton, Short, Plum, Poplar
Square 164 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Plum, Poplar
Square 182 S. Carrollton, Short, Poplar, Jeanette
Square 193 S. Carrollton, Short, Jeanette, Birch
Square 194 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Jeanette, Birch
Square 212 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Birch, Green
Square 244 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Hickory, Cohn
Square 245 S. Carrollton, Short, Hickory, Cohn
Square 255 S. Carrollton, Short, Spruce, Cohn
Square 256 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Cohn, Spruce
Square 277 Panola, Spruce, CArrollton, Dublin
Square 278 S. Carrollton, Short, Spruce, Panola
Square 288 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Panola, Sycamore
Square 380 S. Carrollton and Dublin
Square 389 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Belfast, Apricot
Square 414 S. Carrollton, Dublin, Pritchard Place, Apricot
Square 425 S. CArrollton, Dublin, Pritchard Place, Fig
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